{"id":291556,"date":"2008-01-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/madrid-celebrates-the-beauty-of-the-family\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:41","slug":"madrid-celebrates-the-beauty-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/madrid-celebrates-the-beauty-of-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid celebrates the beauty of the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/layout\/fotodefault\/080110-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>\u201cThese last few  days greatly exceeded all our expectations.<\/strong> The whole celebration was  marked by an atmosphere of deep communion and joy. Each contribution  demonstrated the real difficulties faced by families today, while at the same  time witnessing to the hope and the strength that the life of \u201cChristian  families\u201d can bring to the Church and society\u201d  This was how it was described by members of the Focolare Movement in Madrid  who, together with members of Neocatechumenal Way, Saint Egidio, Charismatic  Renewal, Communion and Liberation, and other movements, had taken an active part  in the preparation of this event, in communion with the dioceses of Spain.  Beyond all expectations, it attracted a million and a half people.  <strong>Talks by five of the leaders of founders<\/strong> of these ecclesial  movements and communities, including a <a href=\"\/articolo.php?codart=5318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message from Chiara Lubich<\/a>, and the witness of families,  acclaimed the beauty of united families, where each generation has its own  essential and specific contribution. There were numerous children, young people  and adults of all vocations, all the way to grandparents testifying to the value  of fidelity.  <strong>A moving moment was the direct linkup with the Pope<\/strong> during  the Angelus in St Peter\u2019s Square. His was a strong encouragement for \u201cfamilies,  inspired by the love of Christ for all people, to be witnesses for the world to  the beauty of human love, of marriage and of the family\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecclesial movements and communities brought together a million and a half people for joyful celebration that witnessed to family values according to the plan of God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}